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Leather Industry Pakistan

TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS..........................................................................................................1 LEATHER INDUSTRY............................................................................................................1 OVERVIEW OF INDUSTRY...................................................................................................1 HISTORY..................................................................................................................................2 PRODUCTION CAPACITY.....................................................................................................2 LOCATIONS IN PAKISTAN...................................................................................................3 TOP PLAYER AND ITS PRODUCTION VOLUME..............................................................4 IMPORT AND EXPORT DATA OF LAST 5 YEARS............................................................4 EXPORT DATA........................................................................................................................4 SOURCES OF RAW MATERIAL...........................................................................................8 PRODUCTION PROCESS.......................................................................................................9

LEATHER INDUSTRY OVERVIEW OF INDUSTRY
Leather industry, including leather products, is the second largest export earning sector after textiles. Currently, this sector is contributing around $800 million a year but has the potential

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to multiply volume of exports with the improvement of quality and diversification in different range of products, specially garments and footwear. Basically, it is a job-oriented sector providing employment to a very large segment of the society besides earning foreign exchange for the country. The leather finishing and made ups industries represent an important sector in Pakistan, contributing almost more than half a billion US dollars in foreign exchange earnings to the national exchequer. The leather industry consists of six sub-sectors namely, Tanning, Leather. Footwear, Leather Garments, Leather Gloves, Leather Shoe Uppers, and Leather Goods. The Tanning industry plays a vital role in the progress of these sub-sectors by providing the basic material i.e. leather. Today, Pakistanis among the leading countries in the production of Leather Garments and Gloves. The leather and leather made-ups industry plays a significant role in the economy of Pakistan and its share in GDP is 4%. Ten years ago, it was the fifth most important export industry in the manufacturing sector, and now it is the second.

HISTORYThe history of leather industry in Pakistan is as old as the country itself. At the time of independence there were only a few tanneries producing sole leather and that too at a very small scale. However, since then this industry has been flourishing and has never looked back. During 1950s, some well-equipped tanneries were set up at Karachi and Lahore, while during 60s and 70s more units were established at Hyderabad Kasur, Sialkot, Multan, Sahiwal and Gujranwala. Starting with the production of picked and vegetable tanned hides and skins, the tanneries, today, are producing not only wet blue and crust, but also fully finished leather. In the early days of independence some tanneries were established in Karachi. In 1950's some were established in Lahore and adjoining areas. The entire production of hides and skins were being exported in a raw form. Thereafter the local tanning industry making at first semi-finished leather made rapid progress due to favorable raw material situation, cheap labor and the existence of growing demand and foreign market.

PRODUCTION CAPACITY

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PARTICULARS

EST. PRODUCTION CAPACITY 90 million Sq meter 7 million 10 million 200 million

...Oxford Dictionary refers to leather as "material made from the hide or skin of an animal by tanning". Tanning, in simple terms, refers to the treatment of raw hides and skins with tanning substances to render the material immune to bacterial attack, ie to produce leather. Additional changes introduced in the process of tanning are secondary and are related to the tanning and retanning chemicals used.
There are hundreds of different leather types and tens of thousands of different chemicals to choose from when producing these leathers. The most important chemicals in the tanning process are the tanning agents as they define the process of leather manufacture as a whole. In this modern day and age, tanners will choose tanning chemicals based on price, convenience of use, environmental issues, and by matching the physical and aesthetic properties introduced by the tanning chemicals to the desired leather properties of the end product. A basic knowledge of the general processes involved in leather production, the tanner's true raw material ie collagen, the pretanning, tanning and retanning chemicals used in the production of leather, and the mechanistic interaction of tanning chemicals, are all factors which are important in order to appreciate just part of the intricate process of leather manufacture.
The Tanning Process
Hides and skins are...

...﻿Leather production processes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The leather manufacturing process is divided into three sub-processes: preparatory stages, tanning and crusting. All true leathers will undergo these sub-processes. A further sub-process, surface coating may be added into the sequence. The list of operations that leathers undergo vary with the type of leather.
Contents [hide]
1 Production management
2 Preparatory stages
3 Tanning
4 Crusting
5 Surface coating
6 Environmental impact
7 References
Production management[edit]
The leather making process is in general restricted to batch processing, but if the surface coating sub-process is added then some continuous processing can be included. The operation flow has to follow the preparatory → tanning → crusting → surface coating sub-process order without deviation, but some of the sub-processes can be omitted to make certain leathers (or partially tanned/ untanned products).
Preparatory stages[edit]
The preparatory stages are when the hide/skin is prepared for tanning.[1] During the preparatory stages many of the unwanted raw skin components are removed. Many options for pretreatment of the skin exist. Not all of the options may be performed. Preparatory stages may include:[2]
preservation- the hide/skin is treated with a method which renders it temporarily unputrescible.
soaking - water for...

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A Study of India’s LeatherIndustry
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Content Page number
Introduction 2-3
Chapter I
1.1 Leather production technology 4
1.2 Environmentally Friendly Production
Methods and Technologies 5-6
Chapter II
2.1 India’s LeatherIndustry 7-8
2. Technology Status of India’s LeatherIndustry 8-14
3. Industry’s Capability to Adopt ESTs 14-16
4. Governmental Support to the Promotion of ESTs. 16-17
5. Export of Environmentally Friendly Leather
and Leather Products 17-18
Chapter III
3.1 Kanpur LeatherIndustry 19-24
3.2 case study 24-36
Chapter IV
Conclusions 37-38
References 39-40
Appendix 41-45
Introduction
Global trade in leather and related goods has grown tenfold during the last 20 years. The trade in leather goods and leather products is particularly important for a number of developing countries. It is an important source of both employment and foreign exchange.
Recent years have seen a large shift of leatherindustries from industrialized to developing countries. This has been prompted by both cheaper labour costs and stringent environmental regulations in the former. As the environmental...

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